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May 23, 2019

Business Live | Euro Zone Crisis | Shares slide and pound dives as trade war and Brexit fears mount - business live

Kalyeena Makortoff

Chinese media up ante in trade war

Chinese state media are ramping up their criticism of America today too, another sign that the trade war is escalating.
My colleague Lily Kuo reports from Beijing:An editorial in the People’s Daily on Wednesday accused the US of
“bullyism”, while a bulletin on the state broadcaster CCTV said the US
was “delusional” if it believed “technological bullying” could contain
China. “This shows some American politicians are extremely narrow-minded
and cannot tolerate the normal pursuit of development and progress of
other countries,” the announcer said.

The harsher sentiments appear to be resonating with the public.
Earlier in the week, a song written by a former Chinese official about
the trade war, set to the tune of a fight song featured in an
anti-Japanese wartime film, had been viewed thousands of times on WeChat.
A clip of a CCTV news segment from last week promising that China
would “fight to the end” was one of the top viewed posts on the
microblogging site Weibo. And last weekend, a CCTV film channel aired a
series of documentaries about the Korean war, when Chinese and US forces
clashed. “We are using movies to echo the current era,” the broadcaster
said on its Weibo account on Saturday.

China: Trade talks can't continue unless US approach changes

China’s Commerce Ministry has raised the stakes in the trade war with America.
Ministry of Commerce spokesperson Gao Feng has declared that
negotiations can’t continue unless Washington changes its position, and
amends its mistakes.
He told reporters:“If the U.S. would like to keep on negotiating it should, with
sincerity, adjust its wrong actions. Only then can talks continue.:

Gao then appeared to single out the sanctions on Huawei, saying they are unacceptable:The U.S. ... crackdown on Chinese companies not only seriously
damages the normal commercial cooperation between both countries, but it
also forms a great threat to the security of the global industrial and
supply chain.

China is firmly opposed to this. We will closely monitor developments and make adequate preparations.”

China says U.S. is unilaterally escalating trade dispute and impacting trade talks as well as putting a drag on world economy
Only
if Washington corrects its mistakes and shows sincerity can trade talks
continue, MOFCOM spokesman Gao Feng says at Thursday's briefing pic.twitter.com/KQCti8tKqo

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Metro Bank chairman under pressure to quit

Kalyeena Makortoff

Metro Bank shares are a rare bright spot across European markets this morning, up nearly 7%. Its shares have jumped more than 80% since successfully raising £375m in a share placing last week.
But it’s not all good news at the challenger bank, which has been
warned it will face renewed pressure to give its chairman the boot:

Kalyeena Makortoff
(@kalyeena)

The fight to oust Metro Bank chairman Vernon Hill isn't over. Shareholder @RLAM_UK
confirms it will keep pushing for a “new independent chairman” after
12% of investors voted against his re-election & over 3.5m abstained
at last week’s AGM

Royal London Asset Management, which holds a 0.39% stake worth approximately £3.1m, said: “The high number of votes against directors at Metro Bank’s AGM
should send a strong and clear signal that many of the company’s
shareholders want to see decisive governance reform.

“We support the move by the board to review the contract with
InterArch, the company run by the chairman’s wife. However, we still
strongly believe that the appointment of a new independent chairman to
lead governance reforms would go some way towards strengthening
oversight, and restoring investor and customer confidence in the bank.
“We have communicated our views with the company and will continue to engage with the board over the coming months.”

The bank is still nursing wounds from Tuesday AGM, which attracted
protest votes across the board. Every resolution attracted at least 7%
of votes against, if not more. You can see those votes here.

Bad news for Brits heading to Europe this summer -- sterling is continuing its record-breaking losses against the euro.
Brexit anxiety has pushed the pound down by another 0.2% against the euro again to just €1.1307, the lowest since January.
This is its 14th day of losses in a row - its worst-ever run.

Pound tumbles as no-deal Brexit fears grow

The UK’s deepening political crisis is hurting sterling again today.
The pound has slumped to $1.262 against the US dollar, down another half a cent.
That’s its lowest level since the first week of January, as pressure continues to mount on Theresa May to resign following the resignation of House of Commons leader Andrea Leadsom last night.
Theres’s speculation that May could finally quit on Friday, once today’s European elections are concluded.
Traders are reacting to the prospect that May is replaced by a
hard-line Brexiteer who will push Britain towards leaving the European
Union without a deal.

The pound vs the US dollar Photograph: Refinitiv
Dean Turner, UK economist at UBS Wealth Management, fears a no-deal Brexit would drive the pound down to just $1.15. That would be the lowest since the mid-1980s.
He also thinks it could plunge close to parity against the euro, near a record low.
Turner says:“Investors should not be complacent about the threat of a no-deal
exit, which we believe would take the pound as low as $1.15 and 0.97p
versus the euro.”
Ongoing Brexit deadlock will also hurt the economy, he adds:“Despite mounting public impatience over the process, many top
officials and lawmakers remain fearful of the economic damage from a
no-deal exit.

Britain’s FTSE 250 has fallen to its lowest level since the end of March, as the market selloff deepens.
The index, which contains more UK-focused companies than the blue-chip Footsie 100, has shed 235 points, or 1.2%, to 19,072.
Consumer-focused firms, and industrial and technology companies are
the worst-performing sectors, hit by Brexit worries and the US-China
trade war.

TUI slides as Brits favour 'staycations'

Back in the City, shares in holiday firm TUI have now slumped by 5% to the bottom of the FTSE 100 leaderboard.
Brexit fears are partly to blame. The slump in the pound in recent
days may be deterring people from heading to Europe this summer, and a
no-deal Brexit would disrupt its operations.
TUI is also suffering from a new survey showing that more Britons will choose to stay at home this summer.
A survey of 2,006 domestic tourists from Barclays found that 31% said
they were likely to spend more time on holiday in the UK this year,
compared to just 8% who said they would spend less time.
Some cited concern over the impact that Brexit could have on foreign travel and family finances.....

Eurozone factories hurt by trade war

Newsflash: European companies continue to suffer from the trade war.
Data firm Markit has reported that eurozone factory sector is
shrinking again this month. Output fell for the fourth month in a row,
while new orders shrank for the 8th consecutive month.
This dragged Markit’s manufacturing PMI down to 47.7 for May, below the 50-point mark that shows stagnation.
Worryingly, factory bosses are now laying off staff -- manufacturing
jobs fell for the first time since August 2014, lost at the fastest rate
since November 2013.
In better news, the service sector (which makes up the bulk of the
economy) continued to grow, keeping the overall eurozone PMI in growth
territory.

Eurozone PMI Photograph: Markit
Chris Williamson, chief business economist at IHS Markit, fears that
the eurozone will only grow by a sickly 0.2% in the current quarter,
compared with 0.4% in Q1.“A renewed deterioration in optimism about the year ahead suggests
that the business situation could deteriorate further in coming months.

Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. Photograph: Hanoi Photography/Alamy Stock Photo/Alamy Stock Photo
South-East Asian countries such as Vietnam are emerging as unlikely winner from the US-China trade war.
Some Chinese manufacturers are reportedly moving parts of their production abroad, to avoid US tariffs.
Paul Donovan of UBS Wealth Management explains:Vietnam is benefitting from the US tax increases; exports to the US
surged. Anecdotal evidence suggests Chinese companies are shifting part
of their production to Vietnam, Indonesia and Thailand.

The shift may be small, but if it is the final stage of production
the boxes are labelled “made in Vietnam” and trade taxes are evaded.

Trade war worries hit European stocks

European stock markets are taking a bath too, as investors worry about a full-blown trade war.
Germany’s DAX has slumped by 1%, with nearly every share in the red.
It’s being dragged down by major exporters such as steel maker
Thyssenkrupp, chemicals firm BASF and carmaker Volkswage and Daimler.
Britain’s FTSE has shed more than 50 points, or 0.75%. Companies
vulnerable to a no-deal Brexit, such as holiday firm TUI (down 4.6%) are
leading the selloff.

European stock markets Photograph: Refinitiv
Connor Campbell of SpreadEx says:With the Tory party in turmoil, and Huawei waving goodbye to another supplier, the markets were in a bad way after the bell.

Panasonic become the latest company to deal a blow to the Chinese
tech giant, joining EE, Vodafone, Qualcomm, Intel and, most importantly,
ARM on the list of firms scaling back or outright severing their
relationship with Huawei following the US blacklisting.
Whatever relief was generated by the announcement a 90-day grace
period earlier in the week has completely dissipated, as investors fret
over the damage this nascent tech Cold War is doing to the chance of a
positive outcome to the US-China trade battle.

It’s taken a while, but City economists do seem to have woken up to the fact that the US and China are in a trade war.
Many analysts had confidently expected a deal by now. But those hopes
have faded since negotiations all-but-collapsed earlier this month.
Now, economists are calculating the impact if president Trump
triggers his threat to impose tariffs on all remaining Chinese imports -
including mobile phones and laptops.Bloomberg is reporting that a full-blown trade war is now looking more likely - almost a ‘base case’ scenario, not a tail risk:After months of predicting a trade deal between the world’s two
largest economies, economists at some of the biggest financial
institutions are growing increasingly pessimistic.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Nomura Holdings Inc. and JPMorgan Chase and
Co. are among those that have rewritten their forecasts as U.S.
President Donald Trump threatens to impose a 25% tariffs on around $300
billion of additional Chinese imports.....
Goldman Sachs economists warned that without signs of progress
over coming weeks, implementation of the further tariffs could easily
become their base case. “While we still think an agreement is more
likely than not, it has become a close call,” they wrote.

Holger Zschaepitz
(@Schuldensuehner)

A full-blown trade war is quickly shifting from
tail risk to the "baseline" scenario. China calls US a threat to the
world. Relations are so strained that a Chinese company wouldn’t be able
to buy a "trash can" in the US right now, JPM quipped. https://t.co/I9VtSNQYzCpic.twitter.com/WQPMOFciuB

Asian markets hit four-month lows

An electronic board displaying stock figures at a stock
exchange hall in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province of China Photograph: VCG/VCG
via Getty Images
Shares in many Chinese firms have fallen sharply today.
The CSI 300 index has slumped by 1.8% in late trading. The technology
sector led the selloff, down 3.3% on average, following the news that
Panasonic was freezing Huawei out.
Consumer-focused firms and telecoms operators are also among the big fallers.
This has dragged Asian stocks down to a four-month low this morning. Hong Kong is down 1.8%, while Australia has dipped by 0.3%.
Neil Wilson of Markets.com says anxiety over a trade war is building.Trade is still front and centre for equity markets with the mood looking increasingly downbeat.

It rather seems the US and China are hunkering down for the long haul – a new long march, to borrow the phrase from yesterday.

Panasonic’s decision to ditch Huawei shows that a ‘tech cold war’ is breaking out, says my colleague Martin Farrer.“We’ve stopped all business transactions with Huawei and its 68 group
companies ... that are subject to the US government ban,” Joe Flynn, a
Panasonic spokesman, said.

Panasonic joins Google, Intel, Qualcomm and Lumentum among the
leading companies to turn their backs on Huawei in what is beginning to
shape up as a tech cold war between the US and China.

Introduction: Panasonic adds to Huawei's problems

Good morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of the world economy, the financial markets, the eurozone and business.
Tensions between Beijing and Washington continue to deteriorate, as the crackdown on Huawei adds fuel to their ongoing trade war.
Overnight, Japan’s Panasonic has become the latest tech firm to cut
back on its business with Huawei. It’s a response to the White House’s
move to ban Huawei from buying technology from US companies without its
approval.
Panasonic says:Panasonic announced in [an] internal notification that it should
suspend transactions with Huawei and its 68 affiliates that were banned
by the US government.

This latest blow to Huawei comes after two UK mobile operators, EE
and Vodafone, decided to launch their new 5G networks without its
handsets. Even more seriously, UK chip designer ARM (whose products are
used right across the tech sector) has frozen Huawei out.
Foreign minister Wang Yi has hit back against the flurry of attacks
on Huawei, accusing the US of “typical economic bullying”, and trying to
undermine Chinese firms.
In a hard-hitting statement, he says:“Some people in the United States do not want China to enjoy the
legitimate right to develop, and seek to impede its development process.

“This extremely presumptuous and egocentric American approach is not
able to gain the approval and support of the international community.”

Wang also insisted that Beijing will not back down, declaring:“If the United States is willing to negotiate on an equal footing,
then on the Chinese side, the door is wide open. But if the United
States opts for a policy of maximum pressure, then China will take them
on and fight to the end.”

Investors are getting rattled by the belligerence from both sides.
Most Asian markets have dropping overnight - led by a sharp selloff in
Shanghai.

Europe is expected to open lower, ahead of new PMI surveys of the
eurozone private sector and a healthcheck on German businesses.
City traders will also be watching Westminster closely, as Theresa May tries desperately to cling on as prime minister.

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